Words to Live by

"Personal accounts of journeys to present-day monasteries in Egypt and translations of ancient monastic texts"--Provided by publisher.

Words to live by	p. 3
The monasteries of the Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt : a monastic and personal journey	p. 25
A journey to the interior : the monasteries of Saint Antony and Saint Paul by the Red Sea	p. 59
The good God, the holy power, and the paraclete : Ad filios Dei (to the sons of God)	p. 101
Saint Paul of Tamma and the life of the cell	p. 139
The life of Paul of Tamma	p. 154
Four short works	p. 165
On the cell	p. 178
Monks, Middle Egypt, and Metanoia : the life of Phib	p. 203
Humility and resistance in Late Antique Egypt : the life of Longinus	p. 237
The ascetic discourse of Stephen of Thebes	p. 283
Holy men and businessmen : monks as intercessors in fourth-century Egypt	p. 323
Ama Sibylla of Saqqara : prioress or prophet? : monastic, or mythological being?	p. 377
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